Managing Director
Founder & Chief Executive OfficerYosuke Kaneko

• Chief Research and Development Engineer, Disaster Response Aviation Technology Team, Aeronautics Engineering Division, JAXA
• Chief Strategy Officer, Terra Drone
• Accenture Strategy Manager
• Unmanned Aircraft Operation Management System Committee Member
• Global UTM Association Member
• Graduated from Keio University, Faculty of Economics

Director
Vice Chief Executive OfficerMasaki Umeda

• Research Assistant, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan
• Business Incubator, WASSHA Inc.
• Project Assistant, U.S.-Japan Council
• B.S. in Social Infrastructure, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
• Research on socio-economic evaluation of drone blood delivery business in African countries

DirectorSoki Ohmae

• Co-founder / Managing Partner of DRONE FUND
• Professor of Digital Marketing, Business Breakthrough University
• Founder and CEO of CREATIVE HOPE, Inc.
• Dronegrapher®

Head of Africa BusinessMary Yeboah Asantewaa

Chief Research and
Development OfficerKatsuya Hasegawa

• Researcher, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
• Ph.D. of Medicine / Ph.D. of Engineering / Bachelor of Agriculture
• Development of drones for Antarctica, Vanuatu volcanoes, and other special environments
• Research on inter-island medical supplies transportation using drones (Amami Oshima Medical Association), etc.
• Member of Amami Islands Medical Future Council
• Director, Society for Human Resource Development
• Director of Finance, Institute of Image Electronics and Imaging Engineers of Japan

Pro Bono R&D Advisor
(Consultant Team)Toshiyuki Takeda

• Partner (Representative Partner), Misono Sogo Law Office
• Involved in the preparation of the “Guidelines for the Risk Assessment of Unmanned Aircraft Operations for the Examination of Safety Assurance Measures” as a member of the Fukushima Robot Test Field Risk Assessment Guideline Preparation Working Group.
• Has been involved in the study of risk management for drone operations and related legal arrangements, such as giving a lecture on legal arrangements for drone flights over private property to the Municipal Network for Drones and Flying Cars (UIC2-Japan).
• Recent publications include “Introduction to Drone Utilization: A Handbook for Social Implementation in the Level 4 Era” (co-authored, University of Tokyo Press).

European Business ConsultantRalph Ankri

Global Marketing Specialist,
Berkeley SkyDeckChaeyoon Park

Public Relations ManagerIchiho Sato

Marketing &
Communication SpecialistTomoka Kojima

Business Development SpecialistYuri Sawa

Business Development SpecialistGeorge Namura

Pro Bono BD Global StrategyMasahiro Yamaguchi

Pro Bono Project Consultant
(APAC Business)Kanae Kawashima

Pro Bono Project Consultant
(DX Design)Takefumi Takagi

Technical Lead Hiroki Kato

Technical Specialist (Hardware)Juhoe Kim

Air Control SpecialistYoshiichi Soshino

Technical SpecialistKotaro Hirayama

Technical SpecialistAshyrgeldi Atayev

Technical Specialist (Software / AI)Mako Yokozawa

Technical Specialist (Software / AI)Kazuki Hoshi

Technical SpecialistChika Otsu

Technical SpecialistMinami Fujimori

Technical SpecialistDaichi Ishido

Pro Bono Technical Specialist
(Consultant Team)Sumie Soneoka

Pro Bono Technical SpecialistMasamitsu Kawamoto

Pro Bono Technical SpecialistShunsuke Nakatani

Pro Bono Project Consultant
(Biological R&D)Daniel Addo-Gyan

Sierra Leone / System and database Administrator, Njala UniversityLamin Josephus Kargbo

Sierra Leone / Network Planning Manager, Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority Abdul Conteh

Project Manager GhanaPatrick Sarpong

Project Manager Sierra LeoneFrancis Sahr Brima

Bhutan / Marketing / Partner, Drukhost, Green e-SolutionsSangay Tshering

Technical Team Support / General AffairsMayu Kakushin

Human Resources / Accounting SpecialistShotaro Fujimoto